Dr.Sci. A.A. Bolonkin worked in Soviet aviation, rocket and space industries and lectured in the main Soviet University for about 15 years.
He lectured as a professor and worked as a Project... More > Director in Moscow Aviation Institute, Moscow Aviation Technological Institute, Bauman Highest Technical University. He earned many official awards from the Soviet Union officialdom.
In 1972 professor Bolonkin was arrested by the notorious Soviet Secret Police (KGB) because he had been discovered reading forbidden political literature about freedom and democracy and had been monitored listening to "Voice of America". For more than 15 years, the vicious KGB torturers kept him in various special prisons, concentration camps, and in exile in utterly miserable Siberia. This period of his life is described in detail in this revelatory book.
Alexander Bolonkin is the author of more 150 scientific articles and books as well as 17 patented inventions.< Less

Dr.Sci. A.A. Bolonkin worked in Soviet aviation, rocket and space industries and lectured in the main Soviet University for about 15 years.
He lectured as a professor and worked as a Project... More > Director in Moscow Aviation Institute, Moscow Aviation Technological Institute, Bauman Highest Technical University. He earned many official awards from the Soviet Union officialdom.
In 1972 professor Bolonkin was arrested by the notorious Soviet Secret Police (KGB) because he had been discovered reading forbidden political literature about freedom and democracy and had been monitored listening to "Voice of America". For more than 15 years, the vicious KGB torturers kept him in various special prisons, concentration camps, and in exile in utterly miserable Siberia. This period of his life is described in detail in this revelatory book.
Alexander Bolonkin is the author of more 150 scientific articles and books as well as 17 patented inventions.< Less

Psychopolitics - "The art and science of asserting and maintaining dominion over the thoughts and loyalties of individuals, officers, bureaus, and masses, and the effecting of the conquest of... More > enemy nations through "mental healing." The former Commissariat for Internal Affairs Beria introduces Soviet Spy students in the methods to brainwash, and control of 'the enemy'. Both on a one-on-one level as well as on a group level, this explosive textbook has been translated and now published. Ever since American prisoners of war in Korea suddenly switched sides to the Communist cause, the concept of brainwashing has continued to concern us. Has it stopped just because the Soviet Union is no more? The only way to know is to understand how it takes place. Learn how it really Is possible to force any thinking person to act in a way completely alien to his character. What makes so-called brainwashing so different from the equally insidious effects of indoctrination and conditioning, or even 'mental health'?< Less

Organized crime in Russia began in the imperial period of the Tsars, but it was not until the Soviet era that vory v zakone ("thieves-in-law") emerged as leaders of prison groups in gulags,... More > and their honor code became more defined. After World War II, the death of Joseph Stalin, and the fall of the Soviet Union, more gangs emerged in a flourishing black market, exploiting the unstable governments of the former Republics, and at its highest point, even controlling as much as two-thirds of the Russian economy.< Less

Ernst Toller's Poems 1918-1921 contain his complete "Poems of the Prisoners" and his first play "Die Wandlung" (Transformation).
Ernst Toller was born in Samotschin, Province... More > of Posen, Prussia in 1893 into a Jewish family. At the outbreak of World War I, he volunteered for military duty, spent thirteen months on the Western Front, and suffered a complete physical and psychological collapse. His first drama, Transformation (Die Wandlung), was to be inspired by his wartime experiences.< Less

Germany 1944: Hermann Frech is not yet sixteen years old when he is conscripted for military duty – at an anti-aircraft battery. His duty is supposed to keep him in comparative safety near his... More > home, but as the Third Reich collapses around him, his duty orders take him far away. Forced to become a “child-soldier,” he huddles in the Reichstag in Berlin as the Soviet Red Army makes its final assault on the capital. Taken prisoner, his life is a daily struggle to find scraps of food to eat and avoid being killed. When he thinks that life could not get any worse, the Soviets tell him that he is destined for Siberia!
Hermann Frech’s compelling account helps the reader to feel the pain and dilemma he faces. This is not a story about heroes or the rights and wrongs of war; it is a story about a captured young man’s struggle to survive and return home to his family, and how, throughout the ordeal, his spiritual faith helps him cope and is strengthened by the experience.< Less

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